Forest planning across Europe: the spatial scale,tools, andinter-sectoral integration in land-use planning |
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Authors: | Sebastiano Cullotta Andrej Bončina Sonia M. Carvalho-Ribeiro Christophe Chauvin Christine Farcy Mikko Kurttila |
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Affiliation: | 1. Dipartimento Scienze Agrarie e Forestali, Viale delle Scienze, Edif.4 – Ingr.H, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Palermo, Italy;2. Department of Forestry and Renewable Forest Resources, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia;3. Research Group on Mediterranean Ecosystems and Landscapes, ICAAM, University of évora, évora, Portugal;4. Irstea, Unité de Recherche écosystèmes Montagnards, Centre de Grenoble, St. Martin d'Hères, France;5. Earth and Life Institute – Environmental Sciences (ELI-e), Forest Nature &6. Society Research Group, University of Louvain, Louvain, Belgium;7. Finnish Forest Research Institute, Joensuu Unit, Joensuu, Finland |
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Abstract: | New approaches to forest planning are needed to support the transition of European forests to sustainable management. The aim of this study is to review forest planning systems already in place throughout Europe by exploring a set of case-study countries reflecting the main silvicultural schools of Western Europe, including Belgium, Finland, France, Italy, Portugal, and Slovenia. A literature review and case-study data were used to assess the scale factors (vertical logic) as well as the relationships between forest planning and other environmental/land-use planning sectors (horizontal logic). The influence of EU policy on the development of forest planning is also discussed. As assessed using the vertical logic, the multi-scale and multi-topic planning approaches adopted in the countries studied here are highly heterogeneous. The horizontal logic shows that despite the importance of an inter-sectoral and harmonic relational framework between forest planning and the planning efforts of other sectors such as landscape and urban planning, the various plans are barely consistent with each other across the European countries studied here. Although interest is growing in the multi-functionality of forests, their sustainable management calls for the development of better integrated planning approaches across Europe. |
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Keywords: | forest management planning forest program multi-scale planning multi-topic planning inter-sectoral planning |
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